Assistant Food Technologist

Closing date: 21/05/2025

Reference: REQ105988

37 hours / Fixed-Term

30,559 - 32,654 *

Llandysul

*All salary values are pro-rata.

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About the role

Please note that the advertised salary for this position is subject to a pending pay award. The final salary will be adjusted in line with the nationally agreed pay award.

Food Centre Wales is looking for enthusiastic, adaptable and motivated individuals to join and strengthen our team delivering an exemplary service to facilitate growth across the food and drink sector.

We have created several new vacancies across our food technology and business development disciplines to further develop our range of support across the agri food supply chain.

We are seeking individuals to become part of a team providing practical, constructive and valuable knowledge transfer activities applied across all aspects of food and drink operational and technical disciplines.

There are openings for all levels of ability and experience offering individuals a chance to work in an innovative, collaborative and growth orientated environment.

You will be involved in a diverse range of inspiring projects and provided with multiple opportunities to engage in valuable personal development.

We are looking to recruit an Assistant Food Technologist to provide technical advice to clients and assist current Technical team with funded project delivery. Projects will be centred around New product development, External accreditations and sustainability with clients throughout south west and mid Wales.

Educated to degree standard in Food Technology or related subject you will have a genuine interest in how science is applied to food and drink processing. You must possess good interpersonal skills and be team orientated with the ability to deal with changing priorities.

In exchange for your skills and commitment we will offer you a range of employee benefits including flexible working, competitive annual leave allowance, pension scheme with 14.6% employer contribution, enhanced family benefits, lifestyle savings and employee health and wellbeing packages.

Job Description and Person Specification

Get in touch

For further information and an informal discussion regarding this post please contact Mark Jones: mark.jones4@ceredigion.gov.uk.

Note: We reserve the right to extend the application closing date.

What we offer

Work-life balance

Lifestyle savings scheme

Generous employer pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Learning and development

Where you'll work

Economy and Regeneration

We play a fundamental role in the delivery of the Council’s key Corporate Strategy objective that seeks to boost the economy of the County and the Mid Wales region. We are organised into three main sections: Economy, Planning and Property Services. Our primary functions include:

Growth and Enterprise: Supporting economic growth and regeneration locally and across the region; Growing Mid Wales; the Corporate Estate and Development Opportunities; Project Support; European and local funding; Food Centre Wales and supporting Agri-Food development; Tourism promotion and development; Tourist Information Centres; Coast and Countryside
Planning Services: Supporting growth through Planning and Building Control Services; Strategic and Local Land Use Planning Policy; Development Management; Building Control; and Land Searches.
Property Services: Supporting the Council’s programme through Project Management; Property and Building Maintenance; Facilities Management; Carbon Management; and the Efficient Use of Council Property.

Llandysul

Historically, Llandysul was the hub of the Welsh woollen industry where thousands of people were employed in the water driven mills during the industrial revolution.
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